THE END.
BILLING AND SONS, PRINTERS, GUILDFORD.
[FOOTNOTES:]
[1] Census, 1891.
[2] Earl of Surrey, son-in-law of William the Conqueror.
[3] A hide is an indeterminate quantity of land, varying from 20 to 4,000 acres. Eyton says it was a fiscal value, and not a superficial quantity.
[4] As much land as eight oxen could plough in a season—80 to 144 acres.
[5] Peasants, not serfs.
[6] Lord Coke says they were 'Boors holding a little house, with some land of husbandry, bigger than a cottage.'
[7] Manor.